Summary
Peiji Chen is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience building high-performing R&D teams and delivering production-grade data and advertising systems. He has led large-scale targeting, DSP and ads optimization engineering at Yahoo/Verizon Media, combining deep modeling and algorithm design with hands-on deployment, troubleshooting and privacy-compliant systems. Equally comfortable in low-level code (C/C++, Java, Perl) and big-data stacks (Hadoop, Hive, Spark), he is a domain expert in data processing, reporting architecture and ML-driven audience products. As an operator-turned-investor he now runs Voyager Capital and advises AI, fintech and IoT startups, applying product-first technical judgement to real assets and early-stage ventures. Notably, he holds a PhD in aerospace engineering and a rare blend of scientific rigor and practical approximation skills that help translate complex models into scalable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate Data Mining and Applications, Graduate Certificate Data Mining and Applications at Stanford University- Stanford Center for Professional Development
Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering at University of Southern California
MS Computational Fluid Dynamics, MS Computational Fluid Dynamics at University of Science and Technology of China
ELPP Program Certificate Business, ELPP Program Certificate Business at University of California, Berkeley- Engineering Leadership Professional Program(ELPP)